Each encounter we had with customer service was handled professionally with knowledgeable people.
Our children and grandchildren absolutely loved the vacation home. Our youngest grandson swam everyday we stayed at the house from sun up to 10:30 pm! We enjoyed walking the golf course path after hours. Very relaxing spot!
A wonderful experience, simple, comfortable and close to all necessary amenities. Would definitely stay again and would recommend to anyone looking for something better than a hotel!
We booked this last minute, and it turned out to be a great choice. The Reunion resort area is very nice, with lots of amenities and everything you need close by. It's near the highway which was perfect for road trips to Disney and other attractions which were about 20-30 mins drive away. The Reunion Vacation Homes rental office is across the street if you have to check in for last minute bookings - otherwise they just send you the code and you can walk right in to your condo/home! Our code didn't work, so we called the number on the door and they had it fixed in seconds, great service, very friendly. Checking in and out is a breeze. There are restaurants, grocery stores and everything else you might need very close by - Publix was across the street. (Tips: there is zero food provided so bring sugar for coffee, and if you want condiments like butter, jam, ketchup, etc unless you want to buy a full jar you should bring your own) The condo was very clean and all the essentials were provided. There is enough dish soap, toilet paper, etc to get you started. Everything worked just fine - wifi was simple and free, tv had cable and Netflix, and there was a PS4 (only 3 games and 1 controller, no camera so limited capabilities, but still a nice addition), oven, stove, fridge all clean and working. We were on the 3rd floor - there is an elevator if you need it- the view was of a golf course, which was great. Pools were nearby for a quick dip if you wanted. We did not partake in the Reunion resort guest pass which allows access to their water park and other extra amenities, so I can't comment on that. However we did visit the Reunion Grande which is a large, beautiful hotel in the resort - we had dinner at Forte restaurant which was excellent. We had our baby with us so we rented a crib from Reunion Vacation Homes and the condo owners provided a high chair, pack and play, a booster and a stroller which we weren't expecting but was a very nice touch! Overall we can't think of any need that wasn't already taken care of by Reunion and the condo owners. We had a great trip and this was a great place to stay and big enough for 2 families (although we were just 1 family) and cheaper or comparable to a hotel which makes it a no brainer in my opinion. I recommend staying here.
Jennifer was very helpful and assisted me in finding the perfect properties as I needed 2 houses close to each other.
Everyone we interacted with was extremely friendly and helpful!
We enjoyed our stay at the Reunion condo. It was clean and large enough for our family of 4. The pillows and mattresses were very comfortable. Our only complaint was the toaster wasn't properly working and the cleaning crew showed up 20 minutes before our 10am check out time which was inconvienent.
Would love to live in this villa, it is absolutely amazing. We had a fantastic holiday and would love to return again sometime in the future. The villa is very spacious, extremely well equipped and tastefully done. The golf courses are great and lovely to play. Also lots of great shopping. Had to buy two more bags we bought so much. Can definitely recommend this 5 star villa for an amazing holiday!
I only communicated with the rental agent at the time of scheduling the trip. She was very friendly.
Loved it and will definitely return!
This is the second time we are here in this fantastic house, and we LOVE IT :-) This house works plenty for 4 couples or a medium family. Large enough to have some privacy and still functional so all can be together. The golf courses are superb, the surroundings are great, plenty of diners and shopping possibilities near by. No traffic noise. And a great view over 2 fairways. We will return.


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About Chiba Korean Elementary Middle School >
Student Art Exchange Program between Chiba and S.F.
ESJF Statement: "After 'Lack of Freedom of Expression?'" Shut Down to Suppress Freedom of Expression
Letter to Aichi Prefectural Triennale Promotion Office
Workshop and Lecture Request
ESJF in the News
"Comfort Women" History and Issues >
2000 Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery
2015 "Comfort Women" Agreement
Historic Lawsuits related to Japanese military sexual slavery before and during WWII
HISTORY and Issues Surrounding THE ASIAN DIASPORA in the United States
Medical Atrocities and Ethics
Primary Source Documents: "Comfort Women" History and Issues >
Concerning the Recruitment of Women for Military Comfort Stations
Psychological Warfare Interrogation Report No. 49
Psychological Warfare Interrogation Bulletin No. 2
SEATIC Psychological Warfare Bulletin No. 182
G-3 Daily Dairy
C.B.I. Roundup
Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) No. 470
Research Report No. 120: Amenities in the Japanese Armed Forces
San Francisco Local History >
Reflection and Chronology: Eric Mar
Reflection: Steven Whyte & Ellen Wilson
Chronology: Teaching "Comfort Women" History from the 1990s to Present
Secondary Source Documents/ Further Resources: "Comfort Women" History and Issues >
Secondary Resource References
International Joint Statement, January 7, 2018
International Joint Statement, October 6, 2018
International Joint Statement, March 1, 2019
International Joint Statement, August 14, 2019
ESJF Statement on the South Korea Court's ruling, January 8, 2021
Victims' Testimonies >
2017 CA H-SS Framework >
Basic questions surrounding the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
Lesson Plans: "Comfort Women" History and Issues >
Reality and trauma of military sexual slavery
Denial of legal and historical responsibility
Remembering and honoring "comfort women"
Collective activism
Contemporary movements towards justice
Sexual and medical violence against Blacks
Map of Memorials in the United States
Peace Girl Statue
2017 Special Task Force Report on 2015 "Comfort Women" Agreement between S. Korea and Japan
YouTube >
First Video Footage of Korean "Comfort Women": July, 2017
First Video Footage of Mass Murdered "Comfort Women": Feb. 2018
Animation Herstory
Justice for the victims of the Japanese military "comfort women" system
Life as a "Comfort Woman": Story of Kim Bok-Dong
Meet Estelita Dy: A Filipino "Comfort Woman" Survivor
Wednesday Rally
2015 "Comfort Women" Agreement and Victims' Reaction
2018 International "Comfort Women" Day
Medical Atrocities and Ethics >
Video Footage for Classroom
Primary Source Documents: Medical Atrocities and Ethics
Secondary Source Documents: Medical Atrocities and Ethics
United States >
History and Issues Surrounding the Asian Diaspora >
Teacher Resource Guide >
Student Resource Guide >
Hak-Soon Kim (1924 – 1997), the first victim to testify in public on August 14, 1991, speaking at the Wednesday Demonstration in 1996
The term "comfort women," "ianfu (慰安婦)," is a euphemism referring to Japanese military sex slaves before and during World War II. The "comfort women" reference disguises the darkness and inhumanity of repeated violence and rape. Indeed, survivor Jan Ruff-O'Herne (a Dutch-Australian born in the Dutch Indies, present-day Indonesia, 1923–2019) refuses to be referred to as a "comfort woman." She said, "We weren't 'comfort women' … it means something warm and soft and cuddly. We were Japanese war rape victims."[1] The "comfort" was meant only for the Japanese imperial soldiers, not for the sex slaves themselves.
"Comfort women" were the victims of a military sexual slavery system established, operated, and expanded by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces from the 1930s until the end of WWII.[2] During that timespan, this system forced more than 200,000 girls and women across Asia into sexual slavery.[3] The first known "comfort station" was established in Shanghai in 1932, and after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the number of comfort stations multiplied.[4] In 2017, at the conference "Japanese Military 'Comfort Women': Remembrance of Post-Colonization and Cultural Re-Actualization," Chung-Ok Yun, Professor Emeritus at Ewha Woman's University, stated, "Instead of the term 'comfort women,' the term 'Female Volunteer Labor Corps' was widely used in the '40s. The majority of Koreans rarely heard or used the term 'comfort women' in the '30s and '40s."[5]
Etsuro Totsuka, an international human rights lawyer, proposed the use of the term "sex slaves" instead of "comfort women" to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights for the first time in 1992.[6] Yet still the term "comfort women" stayed in common use for decades. In order to draw the connection, ESJF uses the terms "comfort women" and Japanese military sex slaves interchangeably. The term "comfort women" is enclosed in quotes to acknowledge its use as a euphemism.
During the 1930s and 40s, among the Japanese soldiers, "comfort women" were considered as a gift from the [Japanese] emperor.[7] In his wartime diary, From Shanghai to Shanghai, Aso Tetsuo (served 1937–1941), the first Japanese medical officer who had been ordered to perform health examination on military "comfort women," wrote that he noticed that "the women were transported under the clause covering the transport of supplies."[8]
Depending on the degree of control that the Imperial Japanese government had on each of its neighboring countries, young girls and women were recruited, coerced, conscripted, or forced into military sexual slavery. Various methods—including kidnapping, deceptive recruitment, pressure on families, and human trafficking—were used to operate the military sexual slavery system. Establishing and operating this military sexual slavery system violated three international treaties.[9] They are: 1) Hague Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907); 2) International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children (1921); and 3) International Labor Organization Convention Concerning Forced Labor (1930).
The Japanese government's own study "On the issue of Wartime 'Comfort Women'" states that "In many cases... these recruiters resorted in many cases to coaxing and intimidating these women to be recruited against their own will, and there were even cases where administrative/military personnel directly took part in the recruitment"[10] These "comfort women," who were forced into Japanese military sexual slavery against their will and international laws, were deprived of four types of freedoms: freedom of residence, freedom of movement, freedom to decline to have sexual intercourse, and freedom to quit.[11]
Surviving victims testified that, at the end of WWII, the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces either mass murdered "comfort women" or abandoned them. The trauma they experienced didn't liberate them when Japan surrendered in 1945. For decades, the Japanese government has been masking or denying the history of "comfort women." In response to this injustice, the surviving victims and their supporters in many parts of the world have worked together to bring justice to this sidelined history since the early 1990s.
Activists began calling the victims and survivors of Japan's WWII military sexual slavery system "grandmothers" rather than referring to them euphemistically as "comfort women." The young girls and women who were once sex slaves had grown old by the time they publicly broke their silence. The following words mean "grandmother" in different languages in Asian countries mentioned in this guide. The Chinese words for "grandmother" below are terms used by Asian activists in the women's movement.
Daniang 大娘 (Shanxi Province), Apo or Ahpo (阿婆) (Hainan)
Obaasan (formal), Obaachan (intimate), おばあちゃん
Korea:
Halmoni, 할머니, Halmae, 할매 (Southern dialect)
Ama (Taiwan's Hokkien Language, Min-nan yu), 阿嬤
[1] Langer, Emily. "Jan Ruff-O'Herne, seeker of dignity for fellow 'comfort women' of World War II, dies at 96," The Washington Post, Aug. 27, 2019.
[2] On the Issue of Wartime "Comfort Women." Cabinet Councillor's Office on External Affairs of Japan. August 4, 1993.
[3] McDougall, Gay J. "Systematic Rape, Sexual Slavery and Slavery-Like Practices During Armed Conflict: Final Report," U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1998/13, June 22, 1998. p. 3.
[4] Norma, Caroline. The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars, Bloomsbury, 2017, p.19.
[5] During WWII, Japan established the Female Volunteer Corps, an organization that, in reality, tricked women and girls into forced labor to support Japan's war effort.
[6] "Commentary on a Victory for 'Comfort Women': Japan's Judicial Recognition of Military Sexual Slavery," 8 Pac. Rim L. & Pol'y J. 47, 1999.
[7] Bentley, J. H., Herbert F. Ziegler, Heather S. Salter. Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, 6th ed., vol.2, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2015, pp. 874–875.
[8] Aso, Tetsuo. From Shanghai to Shanghai: The War Diary of an Imperial Japanese Army Medical Officer, 1937–1941, Eastbridge, 2017, p. 6.
[9] Yoshiaki, Yoshimi. Comfort Women, Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 155–160.
[10] E/CN.4/1996/137, p. 17.
[11] Norimatsu, Satoko. "Reexamining the 'Comfort Women' Issue: An Interview with Yoshimi Yoshiaki," 改めて慰安婦問題の本質を問うThe Asia Pacific Journal, Jan. 5, 2015.
Photo credit: Korean Council (from exhibition Truth & Justice: Remembering "Comfort Women")
Introduction from "Comfort Women" History and Issues
A Reflection and Chronology on the Formation of CWJC by Eric Mar, Former San Francisco City Supervisor and Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University
Artistic and Social Involvement in Designing the "Comfort Women" Memorial Women's Column of Strength in San Francisco by sculptor Steven Whyte & gallery director Ellen Wilson

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Nazko Lake Provincial Park (12,419 hectares) is situated on the northern part of the Chilcotin Plateau, on the dry and sunny side of the highest of the Coast Mountain peaks. It is an excellent choice for visitors looking for a relatively easy wilderness canoe adventure. The 2-4 day canoe circuit covers about 20 km and includes interconnected lakes: Deerpelt Lake, Nazko Lake, Tanilkul Lake, Nastachi Lake, Tzazati Lake, and Tchusiniltil Lake. The portages are well marked and relatively easy.
Besides canoeing, the lakes provide excellent wildlife viewing and fishing, as well as some cycling and swimming. There is a car-top boat launch on Nazko Lake, where motorboat use is permitted.
The park protects extensive wetlands for moose and aquatic fur- bearers. Additionally, American White Pelicans feed on the lakes within Nazko Lake Park. In the early morning and evening, they can be seen dipping their bills to feed on fish, frogs and salamanders. The Pelican is an endangered species, and the one and only nesting site in British Columbia, situated in the park, is off limits to the public during spring and summer. To the east of the canoe route, the wetlands provide habitat to waterfowl, shorebirds, amphibians and fish.
There are two vehicle accessible campsites, at Loomis and Deerpelt Lakes, available on a first-come first-serve basis. These sites are provided with pit toilets. Wilderness walk-in camping is available. Canoeists enter the paddling circuit at Deerpelt Lake, as Loomis Lake is not connected.
Most of these routes are subject to logging truck activity. Use your headlights and drive with caution.
Nazko Lake Park Access: Take Highway 20 west from Williams Lake. Pass through the village of Alexis Creek (111 km from Williams Lake). Bull Canyon Park is 6 km further on. At the top of the hill past this small park, look for the Alexis Lakes Road and turn right. Travel approximately 32 km on the Alexis Lakes Road, then turn left onto the 4600 Road (Clusko-Aneko Forest Service Road). The road to Loomis Lake and the Nazko Lake Canoe Chain is at km 11.5, on the right, just past the 4645 marker sign. Loomis Lake is 11 km from the 4600 Road, and Deerpelt Lake, where the Canoe Chain starts, is about another 2.5 km.
Alternate Route: Travelling west on Highway 20 approximately 67 km west of Williams Lake (or 21 km west of Riske Creek), turn right on the 1300 Road (also called Bush Road or Alex Graham/Raven Lake Forest Service Road). Continue on the 1300 Road for approximately 44 km. Just past the 45 marker sign on the 1300 Road turn left onto the 4600 Road. Travel for 45.5 km. The access road to the Nazko Lake Canoe Chain is on the right, just past the 4645 marker sign. Continue as above.


Michael Crichton has always been one of my favourite authors. His thrillers are usually well researched, fast paced and entertaining. This book however was not like that. Read on to find out why.
Peter Evans is a good guy and an environmental lawyer who gets entangled with a group of people trying save the world from eco-terrorists. How he and his friends go about foiling the terrorists plots from Antarctica to Solomon islands, without dying forms the premise of this novel.
The whole references thing takes away from the plot completely.
Throughout the book Crichton just debunks whatever you thought were facts about global warming, by using selective data. I completely disliked that he did so much research on a such serious topic, just to show it in bad light. He is basically saying that all environmental activist are uneducated and the public in general is ill informed. He concludes the novel by saying that global warming isn't a big deal and we should take future measures cautiously. The entire story was just anti global warming propaganda with a 'thriller' plot as an accessory. I am completely disappointed. This one is only for the die hard Crichton fans.


Directions and parking information to the Thurston Classic.
Note: The launch field has been relocated for the 2018 Thurston Classic. It is a short walk from the parking area and a pedestrian path will be provided as illustrated in the map above. Spectators are encouraged to use the pedestrian path. Spectators will not be permitted on the maintenance road adjacent to the path.
There is no seating in the viewing area which includes a bank (too steep for lawn chairs) and a limited lawn area. Blankets are recommended. Lawn chairs may be used on the level portions of the viewing area.


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Chichester, UK
Chichester Cultural Olympiad
RSC Courtyard Theatre
Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre – TR2
Chichester Festival Theatre
In July 2008 Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd were invited to undertake a feasibility study which would parallel a fundraising assessment and help the Chichester Festival Theatre to understand the scale and costs of options for improving its setting, renewal, transformation and new facilities of its estate, and their chances of success. Ian Ritchie Architects were also to coordinate annex studies undertaken by specialist M&E and Acoustic consultants.
There are two theatres on the estate, the Grade II* Festival Theatre designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya which opened in 1962 capable of seating 1400 patrons and the smaller Minerva Theatre, capable of seating 283 patrons which opened in 1989 to house the successful fringe festival. Other buildings on the site include an administration block too small in scale to house the Chichester Festival Theatre staff comfortably and the Gunter's Building, a much needed rehearsal space built in 2008.
The first part of the feasibility study was to reassess the site-wide access and movement. Our proposal concentrated on the separation of pedestrian from vehicular movement through the creation of a pedestrian piazza linking the two theatres; the piazza was to be accessible from the northern end of the public car park below. A separate vehicular drop off loop was also introduced.
The second part of the study was to investigate the scales at which the Chichester Festival Theatre could look to 'improve the visitor experience' and the 'improvement of the artistic and technical function of the theatres'. This was distilled into three options:
Refurbish: Improve disabled access, complete refurbishment, upgrading grid/lighting/rigging, new control room, major M&E plant renewal and energy conservation improvements, acoustic improvement (both internal and external), new corporate facilities, consideration to converting the existing admin block to two storeys.
Extend: As 'Refurbish' but with the removal of non-original winged additions to the Chichester Festival Theatre and the implementation of considered extension to unify all backstage activities, including a new get-in and dressing rooms, technical spaces and admin offices. The Minerva Theatre would be reconfigured and expanded towards the park (with a new façade), housing a new corporate hospitality facilities overlooking the park.
Extend with Oaklands House: As 'Extend' but with the acquisition of a Georgian house currently for sale within the adjoining Oaklands Park. The house would be converted to provide a mixture of teaching spaces, accommodation for the principal actors and two large new build rehearsal rooms.
The final study was to provide estimated cost information for all three proposals along with an assessment of the heritage and planning risks associated with each proposal. The feasibility study was presented to the Chichester Festival Theatre board in October 2008 and well received.


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Colombian Culture, Colombia Adoption and Raising Colombian Kids
Helping families with Colombian children stay connected with the Colombian culture. You may contact me at the following e-mail: colombiansadoptcolombians @ hotmail.com (please remove spaces around the @ symbol).
Baby Abandoned
By Colombian Mommy - June 30, 2011
Report from yesterday's newspaper "El Tiempo": "A hermaphrodite child was abandoned at a hospital in Chinchiná, Caldas. According to personnel from the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) at the Risaralda regional office, the child was born a month and a half ago and suffers from multiple complications. She has already been operated on in order to define her gender, however, she is still receiving oxygen and is using a feeding tube. The ICBF psychologist in charge of the case stated that the child was registered with the name María José. Her mother was a sex worker in the area and has already manifested her desire to place the baby for adoption because she cannot take responsibility for the child. As a measure for the reestablishment of the child's rights, she in now under the care of a foster mother who has been receiving training as to how to care for the child when she leaves the hospital." Clearly, if María José eventually receives a decl
Wednesdays Wonders: Helado de Paila
Here is an interesting little piece of trivia. The Pasto Indians have been enjoying ice cream (well more like sherbet) for centuries. The natives used ice from the Cerro Cumbal (see Monday's Myth) and mixed it with salt. Then they would place a paila (a container) made of copper in the ice. The paila was filled with small portions of the recipe below. Then, it would be constantly stirred until it hardened. Ingredients without milk: 1 quart of fruit pulp any kind you like -- mango, passion fruit, blackberry, etc. 1 cup sugar 2 egg whites Ingredients with milk: 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 large eggs 3 cups cream 1 1/4 cups fruit pulp If you don't have ice from a mountain or a copper pot, you can try an ice cream maker. Then, check out this video.
TUNES FOR TUESDAY - El Cantante
When speaking the words Salsa music , Fania , and Puerto Rico , the name of Hector Lavoe immediately comes to mind. We are about to move on from the Fania era of Salsa, but before we do, we have to dedicate one entry to " El Cantante ", The Singer. He was born in 1946 and his actual name was Hector Juan Perez Martinez . Why Lavoe , then? Well, I'm pretty sure the origin of Lavoe is this: Hector had a great voice, unique in the world of Salsa . His friends would call him Hector La Voz , Hector The Voice. Now, if you are from the Caribbean, there's no need to pronounce the " s " sound at the end of any word, (so La Voz turned into La Vo), and if you have a catchy nickname like that and you move to New York, you have to Anglicize it, hence, LaVoe, Lavoe. Soon after he moved to New York in 1967, Hector met Willie Colón and Fania . Over the next ten years, the three on them produced the albums that would solidify Salsa music as a genre. But Willie
Myths for Monday -- The Pasto Version of Creation
One of the indigenous peoples of today's department, Nariño, will offer us their version of creation today. The indigenous group is the Pastos. Cumbe -- the First Father The stories that relate the creation of man tell how man came from the marriage of elements with opposite qualities -- up and down, inside and out, and the symmetrical and asymmetrical. This confluence of qualities occurred with the marriage of a hill called Cumbal and a lake called Bolsa. In the area that unites the hill and the lake called the Piedra de los Guacamullos, a container made of clay was found. In that container was found the first man and woman. The man was the Cacique Cumbe and his wife. It was from them that all men descended. When Cumbe died, he was returned to the Cumbal. It is from that hill that he continues to watch over his people. It is from that hill that he has promised to return.
Compensation for Victims
Recently, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, signed a law that will provide compensation to those who have lost land in the Civil War. Publish Post
Wednesdays Wonders: Hallacas the Tamales of the Llano
Hallacas are the Tamales of the Llano. It is served during important holidays throughout the region. These are popular in Venezuela also, but every recipe that I have read has been very different from this one and from each other. If you do not like this version, just google another :) Ingredients 2 pounds of chicken 2 pounds of beef (preferably a pot roast) 2 pounds of pork5 eggs (boiled and sliced) 1 1/4 pounds of arepa flour The following are all finely chopped and some are doubled -- once for the marinade, and once again for the Sauce (Guiso). Some recipes include tomato, others do not. The woman that gave me this recipe did not use tomato. 1/2 head of garlic x 2 2 pounds of onion x 2 1/2 teaspoon oregano x 2 1/2 Tablespoon cumin x 2 1/2 teaspoon annatto (achiote) x 2 1/3 cup chopped cilantro x 2 Salt to taste 1/2 pound green peppers BANANA LEAVES -- these can be found frozen in many Latino Grocery stores. Makes 20 Tamales INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Marinate the meat in all
TUNES FOR TUESDAY -- El Menú
Building a Salsa collection yet? Well, here's a must have: El Menú by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico As you might have noticed, one of El Gran Combo 's defining characteristics is their ability to make fun Salsa songs. This one is naturally about food, but with a twist at the end of the song punctuated by a double play on the word Salsa . "I like my lamb with wine, and my fish with lemon juice; my pork with pepper and oregano, and my rice with ham and bacon . . ." he goes on to list a few more food items such as well sautéed green beans, avocados as big as melons, and bananas. But "at the end" or top of all that "que le pongan Salsa!," pour on some sauce, or salsa, or Salsa! Get it? Either add some great salsa to the food or just play some Salsa while we eat, or better yet, do both!
Myths for Monday -- La Bola De Fuego a Warning to Any Juan
Today's myth comes to us from the Llanos of Colombia (Arauca, Casanare, and today's department, Meta). It is called La Bola de Fuego or The Fireball. In a strange turn of events, I have 2 nephews, 1 niece, 1 grand niece and 1 grand nephew who live in the Llano. One of my nephews insists that he has seen the Bola de Fuego. You be the judge. La Bola De Fuego Some say that the Bola de Fuego is a fiery ball about 2 meters in diameter. This ball rolls about the countryside moving very quickly from one place to the other, going over hills and crossing crevices with ease. When the ball stops, sparks fly and it emits a sound similar to a gas lantern. Up until this point, one might think that this Fireball actually sounds like Ball Lightning, a strange atmospheric phenomenon. However, this is where things turn ugly. The story is told that this "ghost" of the plains came from a ranch on the plains whose owners were a young a couple. The wife was quick tempered, malevo
La Lleva -- You're It
Colombian kids love to play "Tag" or "Touched You Last," just like kids here in the U.S. do. While we say, "Tag" or "You're It", Colombian kids will say, "La Lleva" (pronounced: Lah YEAH vah). It literally means YOU TAKE IT. While Colombianitos may not recognize the various versions of the game I have played (freeze, nerd, elbow, sticky, etc.). Many like to play the "Touched You Last" version. For those of you adopting preschoolers to older children, perhaps you might enjoy a good game of LA LLEVA. If you play, let me know how it goes.
Wednesday's Wonders: Dulce de Coco
I really enjoy having a daily theme. It helps me focus :). So, I going to try Recipes on Wednesdays for a while, under the title Wednesday's Wonders. I am planning on posting a recipe from the same department that the Myth for Monday comes from. That means that today's recipes comes from the Department of Magdalena (though it is probably eaten in other parts of the Caribbean Coast as well.) Dulce de coco (Coconut Sweets) -- From Magdalena Ingredients: 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup raisins 2-3 cups shredded coconut 1 cinnamon stick 2 cups water 1/2 teaspoon lime juice Instructions: 1. Put the sugar, coconut, raisins, cinnamon, and water in a pan on low to medium heat, stirring constantly. 2. When at a low boil, add lime juice. 3. Cook until it until it starts to thicken. Then, let cool and eat.
TUNES FOR TUESDAY -- El Jíbaro Listo
Let's hear another song by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico : El Jíbaro Listo A Jíbaro is a rustic person, a country man. The Jíbaro in the song is also a smart ( listo ) person. Although the story transpires in Puerto Rico, this is a song about the American Dream. Having left the fields for the city, the Jíbaro arrives in San Juan de Puerto Rico on a Fourth of July (what a coincidence), finds work as a carpenter, and becomes successful. In the process he discovers that he has lost any desire to return to his lar nativo -- the native lair. As he puts it, the dark color of his skin turned out to be just stains from the banana plants which went away when he started using soap. He makes new friends and learns to write his name-- and last name--on a piece of paper. Voy a un sitio distinguido, llamado el Hotel La Concha, pues ya se me calló la roncha que del campo habia traído. "Now I go to a distinguished place called the La Concha Hotel, " and he is accepted ther
Myths for Monday -- La Casa del Diablo
In the city of Cienaga, in the department of Magdalena (today's department), there is a fairly modern legend -- dating back to 1908 -- surrounding a man by the name of Manuel Varela. And now, La Casa del Diablo -- The House of the Devil Manuel Varela was a thin, brown, indigenous looking man, who arrived in Cienaga, Magdalena, around the middle of 1908. At the time, the town was an economic center on the Coast. This was because it was the headquarters for the multinational firm, the United Fruit Company. After his arrival, Varela quickly accumulated a great deal of wealth. This was inexplicable by the inhabitants of city, who wondered how the mysterious stranger had managed to accumulate so much wealth in such a short time. Soon, Varela's properties were so extensive that he built his own railway line to transport his bananas, something very surprising in those days. When he managed to build a mansion practically overnight, send his children to study Europe, and purcha
Colombia -- A Grim #1 Ranking
The International Trade Union Confederation is a global organization that represents the "interests of working people worldwide." It was formed in 2006 by combining the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) as well as other trade union organizations. Every year this organization publishes a Worldwide Survey that looks at Labor Union repression around the globe. This year, Colombia placed an unflattering 1st (out of 143 nations) on the list of most dangerous places to belong to or lead a labor union. In 2010 alone, 49 union activists were murdered in Colombia. This represents 55% of all union murders worldwide. There were an additional 20 attempted murders. The report states, "The legal system continues to be ineffective in solving these murders and bringing those responsible to justice. While the new government claims to take workers' rights seriously, anti-union attitudes among employers remain stron
TUNES FOR TUESDAY -- El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
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Myths for Monday -- El Poira or El Mohán
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The Overlooked Phenomenon of Crowdsourced Terrorism
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Barik Mhadeen is a researcher at the WANA Institute, specialising in Human Security and Countering Violent Extremism.
The establishment of Daesh's self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate in 2014 sent ripples into the fabric of the global terrorist movement. While the international community focused on the recruitment of Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs), the role of women and children, and Daesh's media savviness, it largely overlooked the phenomenon of crowdsourced terrorism.
In simple terms, crowdsourcing refers to the use of the internet to "outsource work to the crowd," as first coined by Jeff Howe in his 2006 blog post. Crowdsourcing happens when work that is typically performed by members of an organisation — or violent extremist group in this case — is farmed out to the crowd through an open call for action.
Two elements set this technique apart from similar practices, such as outsourcing: crowdsourcing targets a large and undefined audience, and is facilitated by the existence of a large network of potential job-takers, in this case acolytes of the ideology. The high numbers of lone-wolf attacks and fatalities give testimony to the former element, while the unaddressed grievances of millions of individuals across the globe provide an unlimited supply of the latter.
High Level of Sophistication and Reach
The way Daesh has relied on crowdsourced terrorism is best captured by its media engagement. First, the target of the repetitive 'open' calls was always a generic, rather than a specific, group of people. The violent extremist organisation (VEO) calls on the humiliated, the insignificant, the oppressed, the marginalised, and the left-out to join the 'just' cause. In other words, those who are most vulnerable due to their individual lack of meaning and uncertainty.
Second, Daesh utilised topnotch technologies in its media production to reach acolytes across the globe. An Al-Arabiya documentary examining the VEO's media strategy reports that the group employed 3D techniques in its video productions, produced and disseminated Islamic chants in over 15 languages (including sign-language to convey its messages to the deaf), and has channeled millions of US dollars into funding its large broadcasting networks.
This drives home the third point. The calls of Daesh were not exclusive to those who are able to physically travel to the Caliphate and live within its boundaries. In fact, it was a 'call for action' for anyone who is able to inflict damage and exercise terror in its name, wherever they might be.
The VEO's interactive e-book illuminates this dimension. Addressing "every Muslim believer," it outlines the practical steps for making bombs using basic chemistry, and offers step-by-step instructions to lone-wolfs on how to inflict the greatest indiscriminate violence and damage. The book was distributed in Arabic using Telegram, with a similar version disseminated in Turkish. Crowdsourcing terrorism allowed Daesh to reach a level of sophistication that was never seen with any previous VEO, and has made its reach superior to all.
Fighting Crowdsourced Terrorism
Crowdsourced terrorism poses a number of new challenges. It can no longer be fought merely in the physical space in which terrorists operate, but the fight needs to also take place on the battlefields of narratives, ideas, unaddressed grievances, worldviews, and virtual interactions.
The largely internet-based interaction is proving harder to trace and counter as it directly fuels homegrown terrorism, including that of individuals who have not worked directly with VEOs. From San Bernardino, to Boston, Westminster, Montreal, and Tunis, reams of examples highlight the menacing nature of crowdsourced terrorism. It is not only cost-efficient and instantaneous, it also builds on accumulated knowledge and experience, and is fluid enough to be tailored to specific contexts and actors.
Therefore, advanced technologies have to be developed and deployed to target terrorist content, without the controversies regarding privacy that usually come with internet monitoring. Building the capacities to analyse big volumes of data is an additional challenge to traditional law enforcement and intelligence efforts.
Additionally, crowdsourced terrorism complicates the task of profiling terrorists. Daesh's open calls can be heeded by any individual, without having to fit a typical profile. The increased number of lone-wolf attacks carried out across Europe and beyond demonstrates this trend. The American Lone Wolf Terrorism database reports that the 2010s have already surpassed every previous decade with regards to both the number of lone wolf attacks and fatalities.
To renowned psychologist Arie W. Kruglanski the explanation is clear: despite the different motifs and factors behind the attacks, the individual perpetrators all need cognitive closure. They are looking for certainty and clear-cut answers in an increasingly chaotic world, and Daesh's rhetoric easily reaches anyone befitting this criterion through crowdsourcing.
Finally, the discussion remains incomplete without linking it to cybersecurity. Relevant stakeholders must explore new and innovative ways of untangling this complex web of threats, which so far has remained under-researched. To draw a more nuanced picture of crowdsourced terrorism, this exploration must look into the interlinkages between the legal questions, institutional capacities, and the technical tools available to policy-makers to subvert this threat.
Leaving this stone unturned risks undermining the fight against extremism, as the recent experience with Daesh confirms that its toxic dichotomous worldview — once released into the infinite virtual space — is not easily expunged.
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In this paper, by system for the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM), the courses of action was of some nonlinear. In this article, another homotopy structure is presented for the numerical examination of finding the course of action of a first-organize in Partial Differential Equation (PDE) ux(x, y)+a(x,y)uy(x,y)+b(x,y)g(u)=f(x,y). The Homotopy Analysis Method (HPM) and the separating of a source most inaccessible show are utilized together build up this new system. The homotopy made in this structure depends on upon the ruin of a source work. Particular weakening of source limits impel to different homotopies. Utilizing the way that the deteriorating of a source work impacts the union of an answer drives us to change of another system for the disintegrating of a source capacity to revive the meeting of an answer. The enlightenment behind this study is to demonstrate that building the best homotopy by isolating f(x,y) undeniably picks the game-plan with less computational work than utilizing the present approach while giving quantitatively solid results. Furthermore, this procedure can be summed up to all inhomogeneous PDE issues.
Keywords: Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM), Partial differential equation, Parabolic-Hyperbolic.
Nonlinear fragmentary differential conditions are known to portray a wide gathering of miracles not just in material science, where applications stretch out over magneto uid-dynamnics, water surface gravity waves, electromagnetic radiation responses, and atom acoustic waves in plasma, just to give a couple of outlines, moreover in science and science, and two or three different fields. Not very many issues in physics, or surely in any branch of natural science, can be illuminated straightforwardly therefore, one typically first study a perfect model, which is reflected however much as could reasonably be expected of the natural of the genuine logical framework, as a fitting estimate and after that handle different impacts through some powerful perturbative or potentially non perturbative strategies.
Perturbance Theory (PT) is broadly used to ask about physical systems that can be definitively comprehended yet contain little irritations parameters while applying PT to such a structure, change around the trouble parameter is consolidated, and approximants are passed on as power course of action of these parameters. Then again, non perturbative techniques have been produced to investigate physical issues which don't to some degree physical parameter to be utilized as the aggravation parameter. The non-parameter increase approach, the upgraded trouble hypothesis (OPT) the Variational Disturbance Theory(VPT) and the straight δ-advancement method (LDE), are run of the mill nonperturbative systems, and have been made as fit gadgets in quantum field hypothesis and in move physical settings amidst the previous three decades.
These procedures do exclude annoyance course of action in powers of physical parameters, and the union of gathered is controlled by some made parameters which don't exists in the primary issues. The recreated parameters are settled toward the end of figurings as demonstrated by some worldview, for instance, principle of minimal sensitivity (PMS), which requires the approximants have insignificant dependence on these parameters over irritation strategies. A champion among the most surely understood non perturbative systems is homotopy analysis method (HAM), at first proposed a viable logical method for seeing straight and nonlinear differential and essential conditions.
The HAM was effectively connected to take care of numerous nonlinear issues, for example, nonlinear Riccati differential condition with partial request, nonlinear Vakhnenko condition, the Glauert-stream issue, fragmentary KdV-Burgers-Kuramoto Equation, a summed up Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV condition, nonlinear warmth exchange, to shot movement with the quadratic law, to limit layer stream of nano liquid past an extending sheet, to the Poisson-Boltzmann condition of semiconductor gadgets, lone arrangement of discrete MKdV condition, to the arrangement of Fractional differential conditions, to the Oldroyd 6-consistent liquid with attractive field, MHD-stream of an Oldroyd 8-steady liquid, to the nonlinear streams with slip limit condition etc.
One vital setting for homotopy theory is the stable homotopy characterization; this is the logical universe in which the current homotopy-researcher works. The fundamental jump forward inciting to the making of the subject of motivic homotopy speculation was the improvement by Morel-Voevodsky of new types of this characterization, which brought the "customary" variations from homotopy theory together with commitments from arithmetical geometry. Voevodsky's advancement of the motivic stable homotopy characterization enabled one shockingly to work with the vital material of scientific geometry, plans of polynomial conditions, with the flexibility and power officially only available in homotopy hypothesis.
The motivic theory has been a noticeable accomplishment. The Fields Medalist Voevodsky used these homotopical techniques as a piece of his affirmation of the watched Milnor figure, and motivic homotopy speculation had significantly more central influence in his dedication to the check of the Bloch-Kato figure, the productive peak of thirty years of heightened research. Other than these completely stunning applications, the way that one could now use the musings and techniques for homotopy speculation to deal with issues in arithmetical geometry has pulled in mathematicians from both fields and has incited to a plenitude of new improvements and applications, for instance, course of action comes to fruition for logarithmic vector bunches. Motivic homotopy theory has been profitable for the conventional homotopy researchers as well. The late work of Hill, Hopkins and Ravenel on the Kervaire invariant one figure, settling one of the major open issues in stable homotopy speculation, used as a part of a urgent way the "cut filtration" in equivariant stable homotopy theory, which therefore was moved by Voevodsky's cut filtration in motivic stable homotopy hypothesis.
It should be highlighted that um(x; t) for m ≥ 1 is managed by the straight condition with direct reason for constraint conditions that comes outline the basic issue, which can be fathomed by the fundamental figuring programming, for instance, Mathematical or Maple. For the meeting of the above method we insinuate the peruser to Liao. In the occasion that condition yields unique course of action, then this system will convey the amazing game plan. If condition does not group a stand-out course of action, the HAM will give a reply among various other possible game plans.
Differential homotopy hypothesis depends on refining the limitation to manifolds of traditional homotopy invariants of spaces by consolidating extra structures, for example, differential structures or associations. In one course, this approach shows up in arithmetical geometry through Arakelov hypothesis, while file hypothesis frames another essential bearing. As of late this hypothesis has gone up against a "motivic" character, in that items are developed as presheaves on different classifications of smooth manifolds, generally as the motivic hypothesis depends on presheaves on the class of smooth plans. From both perspectives, the trading of thoughts and methods between motivic homotopy hypothesis and differential homotopy is both regular and alluring .
Conventional differential cohomology has been presented by Cheeger and Simons as a refinement of normal cohomology with necessary coefficients, and serves as an objective for refined trademark classes and trademark frames. This approach depends on an express depiction of the important gatherings by cycles and relations. Utilizing a more homotopy theoretic approach, Hopkins and Singer demonstrate how one can refine a summed up cohomology hypothesis, for example, K-hypothesis, to a differential one. Associations with material science are talked about and a uniqueness hypothesis for differential cohomology speculations is accomplished. In a general setup utilizing boundlessness classes is produced to characterize differential expansions as a stack of spectra on the classification of smooth manifolds and is connected to the development of differential arithmetical K-hypothesis of number rings. Speculations to standard plans over the whole numbers are given. Work of Holmstrom-Scholbach utilizes parts of motivic homotopy hypothesis to develop Arakelov motivic cohomology and Arakelov K-hypothesis; a comparative approach is utilized by Hopkins-Quick as a part of their development of "Deligne"- cobordism.
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In this paper, we use another homotopy perturbation procedure to get the methodology of a first-make inhomogeneous PDE. In this system, each decay of the source work f(x,y) prompts to another homotopy. In any case, we develop a framework to get the best decay of f(x, y) which grants us to get the procedure with scarcest estimation and empower the meeting of the approach. This study displays that the destroy of the source work in a general sense impacts the measure of estimations and the engaging of the meeting of the strategy.Veering from the standard one, breaking disconnected the source work f(x, y) truly is a direct and to an incredible degree inciting instrument for figuring the great position or antagonistic outlines with less computational work. Exceptional in association with all other exact frameworks, it gives us a reasonable approach to manage adjust and control the meeting zone obviously of activity by picking appropriate estimations of partner parameter h, helper work H(t) and right hand coordinate regulator L. In addition we displayed that homotopy trouble strategy is the magnificent event of homotopy examination framework. here are some imperative focuses to make here. In the first place, we have incredible flexibility to pick the helper parameter h, assistant capacity H(t) and assistant straight administrator L and the underlying conjectures. Second the HAM was appeared to be straightforward, yet capable investigative numeric plan for tackling different nonlinear issues.
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In 1982, before terms like multiculturalism and political correctness entered the mainstream, the American film Annie, a feel-good movie about a scrappy American girl who hits it rich in the middle of the Great Depression, presented the anomalous side character of "Punjab," a mystic bodyguard and healer who is the right-arm man to the millionaire hero of the film. "Punjab" was played by the visibly African American Geoffrey Holder, who despite his Trinidadian roots, is not Punjabi, or even Indian. This nonspecific representation of South Asian identity, along with Amrish Puri's wildly stereotypical and only vaguely Indian character in The Temple of Doom, made up the 1980's media possibilities for NRI children in the States to see themselves in American narratives. Shalini Parekh, a 32-year old American-born Health Analyst at the CDC states, however, "I do remember that little Indian guy from Short Circuit." The little Indian guy was white American actor Fisher Stevens.
In the early 1990s, the phrase "Generation X" gained currency in mainstream American culture through music and literature, and it slowly became associated with then young adults who had been born and raised in the U.S., roughly between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. The label "Generation X" first became synonymous with a sort of "slacker" identity, an epithet that referred often negatively to an educated but somehow professionally paralyzed generation, a generation that grew up fearing nuclear war but found meaning in the shared pop culture of Saturday morning children's television programming. Later, as with the evolution of the label "American Born Confused Desi," "Generation X" lost much of its earlier negative meanings and instead became simply a label that marked some common experiences and a shared history. Today, with the arrival of another generation and subsequent label (Generation Y—children born roughly between the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s), it is clear that neither classification nor the traits associated with them satisfactorily sum up the differences between those born so many years apart. And yet, even within the Indian American community, people seem to want to assign general characteristics with those ABCD's who are either a part of Generation X or Generation Y. "Generation Y, as our parents call us, seems to be much more aware and accepting of Indian culture," claims Mika Jain, a 16-year-old at Atlanta's Woodward Academy. Even more importantly, today's more complex South Asian immigration patterns further problematize the older definitions of "first generation" or "second generation." While "first generation" often refers to the original, emigrating generation, and "second" refers to American-born or raised children, today, as more NRI's go back and forth between the motherland and the U.S. for extended residences, and as more people are coming to America with older children, it is becoming more and more difficult to categorize and classify desi groups with identity labels.
About first generation parents, Shalini Parekh expounds, "They are some of the bravest people in the world. I can't imagine packing up from my homeland and moving to a completely foreign country in the late '60s/early '70s, when there were relatively few Indians outside of the mother country." Despite diligent efforts taken by first generation Indian parents to provide Indian culture for their offspring, many members of Generation X are conscious of some profound absences when it comes to culture, cultural understanding, or cultural exchange. Mallika Chakravarti, a 31-year-old in Interactive Marketing and Advertising, laughingly remarks on the "coconut" ("brown on the outside/white on the inside") mentality of some of her Indian American peers during her youth. Despite being an active member of NetIP in her adulthood and having been a part of an Indian community growing up, the D.C. born Chakravarti never had a chance to attend a garba event until this past year. Her experience illustrates the perspective of compounded cultural alienation faced by young adults from under-represented parts of India, or those second generation children whose Indian region-based communities in the U.S. are smaller than those of Gujuratis or Punjabis. Chakravarti, whose parents are from Madras, remembers a particularly difficult year, 1989, when her family returned to the U.S. after residence in Egypt, when their once strong and unified Indian community in the D.C. area began to feel less inclusive due to newer immigration patterns and the increased numbers of Indian American mothers going to work. "I just became shy around Indian people," she states. Her experiences serve as a contrast for today's metropolitan youth who grow up with numerous ways of celebrating Navratri or Diwali, events that are now held in Indian owned halls and temples as opposed to the then rented spaces of American churches.
Though many are familiar with the story of the cultural confusion arising from being American-born, it is clear from talking to many second generation adults that the struggle overwhelmingly results in advanced introspection and ultimate self-awareness, almost as if members of this generation unwittingly become fluent and articulate in discussing the complex forces informing ideas of culture. Dr. Suvrat Bhargave, who graduated from Atlanta's Woodward Academy in 1986, conducted a social experiment for his first two years of college at the University of Georgia. He forced himself to disassociate from all things Indian on campus because he suddenly became conscious that he was more comfortable with himself in Indian settings as opposed to American ones. His goal was to try to be "the same person all the time," and only after he accomplished it did he allow himself to reintegrate, with confidence, back into Indian American social settings. Also describing his social circles, the younger Harin Contractor claims, "I've made a strong effort to find a balance. I know it is sometimes awkward to go out and seek non-desi or desi friends, but I think the only way I remain myself is to keep this balance among my social network." The responses of both Gen X and Gen Y Indian Americans to questions about identity are almost always sensitive and reflective as words like "hybrid," "dichotomy," and "consciousness" emerge in their descriptions of coming to terms with who they are. They are quick to speak of "the best of both worlds," of combing cultures and philosophies; they seem to be active sociologists and cultural anthropologists by nature. They seem to understand that they should embody the most inclusive and multicultural American ideals.
Archith Seshadri shares the credit for reporting.
As the third generation—known variously as Gen Y, the Millenials, iGen—grows to consciousness within Indian American life, it is clear that several of the challenges faced by earlier immigrants will fade away. Technology and easier access to India, not to mention the ever changing face of America, will make anxieties of being different a thing of the past. While the children of some Gen Xers are confident in discussing who they are and seem almost at once to allay the myths about younger generations losing their "heritage," many Generation X adults still have concerns that their parents' culture will disappear. Nithya Desikin-Robertelli states matter-of-factly, "When my grandmother died last Christmas, I felt like the connection I had to India died. It was more painful than her death itself." Dr. Sanket Vyas, a former resident of Atlanta, explains his drive to keep India's identity everlasting in his life. He recollects his trip to Jamaica with his wife where they met an Indian girl who seemed lost about her cultural roots, being a third generation Indian. "It really shook me up as I basically saw what our grandkids would be like despite my love of my culture. I knew right then and there that just like all the other immigrant groups that had emigrated here, desis were going to be swallowed up by American culture and there was nothing we could do about it." Vyas has since mediated his fears through his blog about Bollywood music, a cultural phenomenon that he feels will continue to provide common ground for people of Indian origin.


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Will Davies: 'Experiments in Community: Relational Government and Audit After Neoliberalism'.
Will Davies is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. His research looks at the policy uses of economic techniques and methods, especially with respect to the promotion of competitiveness and wellbeing.
The immunologic stratagem involves the spreading of fear relating to encounters between a knowable self and an unknown nonself to justify, among other things, the intensification of security measures. It is not merely an ideologically conceived deception. Its attempt to control the idiom by way of linguistic trickery is just one layer of a far more concentrated discursive formation. Indeed, discursive formations do not necessarily operate at the level of ideology at all (Foucault, 1980). There is, as such, a need to locate both the discursive and prediscursive forces that assemble real practices. My approach in this talk shifts away from the importation of language into discourse, toward the assembled components of fearmongering stratagems wherein immunology can be seen to permeate the very matter and functionality of network security. The binary filtering of self and nonself exceeds abstract diagrammatic forces, becoming part of the concrete relations established between end users and the software they encounter. Key to this ever evolving stratagem is the growing significance of an unknown (and sometimes unwitting) threat to the unified body that functions on both a discursive and prediscursive plane. This unknown enemy is increasingly located as the source of contagion but is opportunely kept at a distance and cloaked in anonymity.
This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork with counter-terrorism officers in secure ports of entry. I briefly discuss the problematization of terrorist threats to airports as a way to appreciate the importance of a key incident in Boston-Logan Airport in late 2001. I show the ways in which one of my key research participants identified a gap in security systems and later assembled techniques for policing at the level of life itself – abnormal behaviour detection by means of skilled vision. The system he developed has spread throughout the world, from counter-terrorism measures in Belfast to military deployments in Iraq. My ethnographic research is composed of participant observation in counter-terrorism training, from interrogation techniques and counter-surveillance measures to live deployments with armed uniformed and covert officers. This paper will contrast the apprenticeship required to develop skilled vision with the recent US Homeland Security-led systems that use affective computing to detect emotional deviance or 'malintent'. The paper will make use of a number of concepts available in the work of Bentham and Nietzsche, Foucault and Agamben. My concern here is to stake out a position for the anthropology of contemporary (in)securitization.
Mark Maguire is Head of the Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He researches the technologies and processes of securitization, especially counter-terrorism, biometric security, affective computing and the detection of abnormal behaviour and 'malintent'.
Chair: Debra Benita Shaw, School of Arts & Digital Industries, UEL.